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[IloL'St    UnA  ,   NOr-  --.]      . 

HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTA'lHYK^,  Dec^ilst,  1863.— Ordered 
to  be  printed. 

[By  Mr.  Holton.] 


A.   BILL, 

To  be  entitled  an  Act  to  amend  tlie  hiM  in  relation  to  substitutes. 

1  Whereas,  Through  frauds  perpetrated  on  the  government  under 

2  the  clause  of  the  act  approved  April   16th,  1862,  which  granted 

3  the  privilege  that  persons,  not  liable  to  military  duty,  might  be 

4  received  for    those  who  were,   our    armies  have  been  deprived 

5  of  the  services  of  men  necessary  for  the  public  defence  ;  there- 

6  fore, 

1  Skc.    1.    The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  do  enact.  That, 

2  in  all  cases  where  substitutes  received  under  the  provisions  of 

3  the  above   (or  any  other)  law  have  deserted,  or  shall  hereafter 

4  desert,  the  obligation  of  the  principal    shall  revive  upon  the  de- 

5  sertion  of  the  substitute  being  established   and  attested  under 

6  regulations  to  be  prescribed  by  the  Secretary  of  War. 

1  Sf.c.  2.   In  all  cases  where  a  substitute  has  proved  unfit  for  the 

2  discharge  of  the  ordinary  duties  of  a  soldier,  by  reason  of  physi- 

3  cal  or  mental  incapacity,  existing  at  the  time  he  was  received  as 


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4  a  substitute,  the  obligation  of  the   principal  shall  revive  upon 

5  such  incapacity  being  established  and  attested  under  regulations 

6  to  be  prescribed  by  the  Secretary  of  War. 

1  Sec.  3  In  all  cases  where  a  man,  who  is  a  substitute,  would  be 

2  liable  to  enrollment  for  military  service  under  existing  or  future 

3  laws  if  he  were  not  already  in  the  army,  the  principal  is  hereby 

4  declared  to  be  subject  to  such  enrollment. 


